always hungry

These are my really general tips for hunger:

1. Make sure that your calorie goals are set appropriately. Don't skip this step. A lot of people set goals that are too aggressive and then wonder why they're having a hard time. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819055/setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

2. Look for foods higher in protein, fat, and fiber. These help us stay full and more satisfied longer. If you're using MFP's default settings, try to consider protein, fat, and fiber as minimums to reach every day rather than maximums to stay below.

3. Drink plenty of fluids. Some people really do confuse thirst and hunger.

4. Get plenty of rest. This includes sleeping enough and taking rest days from the exercise. Sometimes our bodies look for food when they're exhausted.

5. Play around with your meal timings. Some people do really well on 5-6 small meals a day and others feel like they want to gnaw their own arm off eating like that. Skipping breakfast, eating breakfast, 16:8 fasting, 6 small meals, 3 larger meals, snacks, no snacks, meal timing won't make a big difference to your weight loss, but it may help your hunger levels, mood, concentration, gym performance, etc. throughout the day. Don't be afraid to try a different way and see if it helps.

6. Wait it out. If you know you're eating enough and the other steps above aren't helping, you may just have to wait it out. Our bodies send out hunger signals partially out of habit. If you eat at a certain time every day your body will start to get hungry at that time. The good news is that these signals can be retrained to stop telling you to be hungry all the time. The bad news is that you may just have to be hungry for a little bit while that happens.

7. I also think it's important to remember that there's a habitual component to hunger. This goes along with point #6, but if you eat because you're bored or you're used to eating in front of the TV or in the car or whatever it is, then you can replace those habits with others that are better for you. Things like keeping water on hand to sip instead of snacking or picking up hobbies that keep your hands busy or that get you out of the house more can help out a little while you're retraining your hunger cues. You might need to pay attention to why you're eating/hungry or what you're feeling when you eat and try to replace food with other things, but it can be really beneficial over time.

A protein shake mid morn or mid aftn really helps me. Salad is great too. Even though it doesn't have a lot of cals it really helps fill me up. If I don't have a salad I'm still starving after I eat. The same meal with a salad satisfies quite nicely. Of course you have to watch what you put on the sslad & the type of dressing, but that's not a prob for me.

Fat's and protein for satiety.

1kg per week is too much to lose. Set your goal to be way less aggressive. Then as you adjust to logging everything and start cutting calories you can increase the goal and cut more calories.

I used to be exactly the same.
Once you've finished your meal, wait 20 minutes before you reach for more. After those 20 minutes, ask yourself "Am I REALLY hungry?". You are most likely bored or not allowing your food to 'go down'. I usually make an active plan in my head like tihs :- "I'm going to finish my meal, then I am going to read a chapter of my book and then do the dishes". This stops the 'reach for more' mentality because I've found other things to do!

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@ceoverturf
normally in the mornings I am not really hungry but as I go towards evening my crazy hunger starts.

Since you say that you are not hungry in the morning, you could try Intermittent Fasting. I, for example, eat only from 12 to 18, so I have a window of six hours during which I eat all my calories. I never feel hungry.

Bump.

I am too hungry on 1200 calories today and can't sustain that over time. I readjusted to 1500 calories per day and am losing weight slowly and steadily. I eat 5-6 times per day smaller meals with more protein/fat (and less carbohydrates) (different people have different foods that help them feel full longer for some people it is carbohydrates, but not for me), I eat big salads twice a day. You can do it!